- MARINA CHAVEZ
- Carlene Carter
The music calendar gets fairly quiet the week after Lollapalooza, though “quiet” doesn’t mean silent. If you’re eager to get your live-music grind on this week there are plenty of great shows to see.
“You don’t have to be a Tolkien fan to appreciate the Ravinia Festival’s screenings of the last film in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Return of the King,” writes Deanna Isaacs. “I’ve never read Tolkien’s books, and I’m mostly clueless about their lore—but I am a fan of movie music and its awesome capacity to bestow emotional depth and power. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra performing a great score live while the film it accompanies plays on a screen above the musicians promises to be the kind of maximum aesthetic experience you can otherwise get only with, say, grand opera: virtuosity on a majestic scale. And the technical innovation that makes it possible—the recorded music can be peeled away from the film while preserving dialogue and sound effects—is as nifty a piece of magic as you’re likely to find in Middle-earth.”
Sun 8/10: Boris at Bottom Lounge
